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Post by edwin on Jul 19, 2012 2:33:26 GMT
The crossover is on the "wrong" side because reversing in sidings allows trains to run at a higher frequency, although for it to be any use in London the rules regarding tipping passengers out would need to be relaxed.
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Post by edwin on Jul 2, 2012 3:38:34 GMT
No station at Vauxhall, no interchange with Battersea NR stations, and the crossover at the wrong side at Battersea station... This just gets better and better. Also, don't forget that if this goes ahead then there is less chance of the Northern ever being extended into Camberwell where it is needed the most.
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Post by edwin on May 30, 2012 5:35:50 GMT
^^Maybe i'm wrong but it appears that the new tunnels won't be connected to Monument via an escalator? Doesn't this mean that passengers changing from the Circle/District to the Central will have to use the far more cramped DLR concourse?
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Post by edwin on May 9, 2012 4:03:01 GMT
So are the new seats on the 96TS of the new moquette no longer have any kind of padding whatsoever? Is LU now becoming like every other metro in the world and no longer having comfortable seats?
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Post by edwin on Mar 27, 2012 2:33:10 GMT
TBTC is rubbish really it might help run trains run closer together but they are still slow as hell is 30tph now running are they any faster? I wish the jubilee line went for the coded fixed block system where trains go full belt all the time and no stop start power Actually there is "stop start power" on the Central line, which is fixed block. It just isn't as noticeable.
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Post by edwin on Mar 19, 2012 13:29:22 GMT
^^From a rail enthusiastics perspective that's a shame. I used to always love the way the 67TS would dart into the station right near the platform entrances at Victoria NB.
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Post by edwin on Feb 25, 2012 0:41:24 GMT
1) I used to consider the Victoria line as a 'ghost train' because of the eery sound produced by the track corrugation. 2) I used to think the Victoria line was a fast version of the Bakerloo. 3) When I first saw the 1996 stock I thought it was the same as the 1992 stock.
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Post by edwin on Feb 24, 2012 19:22:41 GMT
I think I have. I thought my seat was broken at first.
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Post by edwin on Jan 26, 2012 3:26:22 GMT
Well I was on a 96TS the other day with unusually hard seats. I expected the typical cushioned seat and when I sat down (hard) I thought my seat was broken! I moved to the seat beside it and it was just as bad! The seat covers looked like they had been changed recently.
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Post by edwin on Dec 27, 2011 2:11:56 GMT
The ticket hall is nice but the platforms look unfinished, why is half the ceiling clad and the other half bare concrete? It looks awful...
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Post by edwin on Dec 13, 2011 5:31:51 GMT
I just really don't understand why the doors are not evenly spaced. What good does it serve?
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Post by edwin on Dec 13, 2011 5:04:54 GMT
Sorry to be morbid but i'm interested in how these incidents of deaths occured.. Maybe then we'd be able to understand the reason for sensitive edges. For instance: was the fact there were no door chimes around, or the fact that there were no in-cab CCTV a large factor in the deaths? If so then why would we need sensitive edges on top of those safety nets? Also, how did these people become stuck? Surely it's pretty difficult to get something stuck in the doors from the outside, as you must be getting off when the doors are closing, which in the rush hours, is pretty rare.
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Post by edwin on Dec 13, 2011 4:47:14 GMT
When I'm in London, and usually around peak. The only trains I really had to cram myself in are the 92ts, which are nearly always busy. I live on the Jubilee and it's the same for me. It's often busy, yes, but there is space for me to board, so not as bad as everyone makes out. However I do live on the northern end of the Jubilee, I think the Canary Wharf - London Bridge section is often packed to the brim.
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Post by edwin on Dec 13, 2011 4:41:29 GMT
They are re-doing windows on the Bakerloo but you don't hear as much about that.... How many olympics guests will be using the bakerloo compared to the central though? When some host cities push through new metro lines when hosting the olympics or similar events... What do we acheive? an extended tramline and some new seats... byr we better shout about it in case people think we've done nothing at all... (nb i am being slightly simplistic) The difference is other cities don't already have ample transport links around the olympic village. We do, therefore little need for new metro lines.
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Post by edwin on Dec 4, 2011 2:52:59 GMT
I don't really have a problem with people putting their feet on the seats as long as no-one else wants to sit there, and the base of their shoe is not touching the seat.
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Post by edwin on Dec 4, 2011 2:50:02 GMT
^^Moscow Metro stations tend to be far more spaced out than LU stations, and every line also tends to have a ticket hall at both ends, much like how Crossrail stations will be.
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Post by edwin on Nov 27, 2011 1:43:37 GMT
^^Soviet Metro stations were heavily influenced by deep level LU stations in the first place.
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Post by edwin on Nov 26, 2011 1:30:53 GMT
^^It was shoddily done. The tiles are all wonky and uneven in several places, so much so you can tell from inside a passing train...
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Post by edwin on Nov 24, 2011 2:19:02 GMT
if you think how much money was wasted pointlessly refurbishing some stations and trying to replicate... in some cases poorly, the Yerkes stations, you do tend to wonder who authorised the workmanship to be signed off. I don't think Yerkes or even Leslie Green would be too happy with the work at some of the stations that have been refurbished in a pastiche style. Putting a pastiche style, or a replica, is far better than ripping it out and replacing it with something hideous which is what they did in the 80s station refurbs. Who an earth decided that the colour combination of blood red, beige, dark green and dark blue look nice together in the case of Piccadilly Circus, for instance? If you look at a station like Russell Square the refurb needed to be done, the old Yerkes tiles were chipped and tatty looking. The replicas look far nicer.
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Post by edwin on Nov 15, 2011 0:14:04 GMT
A Stock: 16m per car Class 378: 20m per car
And people need to remember the D Stock has the longer type of car at 18m per car.
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Post by edwin on Nov 15, 2011 0:04:58 GMT
^^Oxford Circus too has the original CLR street level building.
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Post by edwin on Nov 11, 2011 3:44:02 GMT
^^The sensation of speed on the Victoria is AFAIK because it doesn't have any bends that require speed restrictions. And because the stations tend to be further apart.
Also the modern rolling stock and signalling contributes, but IMO it was still pretty fast when the 67TS were on it.
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Post by edwin on Nov 10, 2011 2:55:53 GMT
It looks like there will be two tunnels in between the running tunnels? The current southbound tunnel and a new passageway... So not really that similar to London Bridge which has one tunnel between the running tunnels.
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Post by edwin on Oct 20, 2011 1:28:08 GMT
But a station at Shoreditch High Street would provide a good interchange with the London Overground. And would probably come after Crossrail is built, meaning that the situation at Bethnal Green may be far less of a problem. Also people are forgetting that many people will probably get off at Shoreditch to change to LOROL, as well as on.
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Post by edwin on Oct 6, 2011 0:40:13 GMT
^^No cold air is being pushed in by the movement of the trains i'd assume?
IMO something has to be done about the heat on the tube, even it winter I find it too hot.
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Post by edwin on Oct 1, 2011 2:18:13 GMT
I've asked this before, but why will this take nearly the entire time of Crossrail's construction to build?
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Post by edwin on Oct 1, 2011 1:56:38 GMT
^^Don't forget the deep foundations of all the skyscrapers in that area!
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Post by edwin on Sept 29, 2011 0:59:10 GMT
Guess what Alan. I've got a couple of UNKLE albums, purchase on-line when I was in one of my more insane modes. I think I've only ever played em once each on account that just like the music in the video, they are a complete digital dirge. But unlike the likes of the *Brilliant Olly Murs* it's original dirge. Composed and performed by themselves, unlike the Karaoke "artists" from the bowel of Cowell. Compose, perform, hawk around find popularity or not, get a recording deal < The stuff of real talent................ Funny you say that as UNKLE's music is 100% from sampled sources...
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Post by edwin on Sept 25, 2011 1:56:42 GMT
It looks very similar to the SSL ticket hall at Kings Cross St Pancras... Am I the only one who has noticed this?
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Post by edwin on Sept 14, 2011 1:46:56 GMT
I sampled the 09TS during rush hour today. I was impressed, journey times were short and so were dwell times. It's a shame that the dwell times at Victoria southbound seem to drag a lot... and the repercussions for the rest of the line because of this.
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